It just keeps coming. ASUS also announced a $149 16GB MemoPad HD 7 featuring a quad-core Cortex A7 SoC and a 1280 x 800 IPS display. The HD 7 will come to the US, while an 8GB $129 version will ship in emerging markets.

How is it that this low end $149 model has Bluetooth 4.0 but their new top of the line Transformer Pad Infinity they also just announced only has Bluetooth 3.0? Makes absolutely no sense to me. Would love an explanation if there is one, because I'm completely dumbfounded.Reply

They current top-of-the-line MediaTek SOCs have embedded Bluetooth 4.0 in them. I have a MediaTek MTK6589-equipped phone. The quad-core Cortex A7 and low-clocked SGX 544MP graphics is plenty fast paired with a 720p screen and it gets around 13K on AnTuTu v3.3 (3D graphics score in AnTuTu around 3.5K).Reply